I'm Publishing Matanuska BASIC's ADRs

1. matanuska

   1 2 0 9.5 TypeScript

   A chill BASIC to shell to 💃

   

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. nushell

   2 232 35,714 9.9 Rust

   A new type of shell

   

   But these fantasy consoles are aimed largely at the classic BASIC use case of writing simple games. My interest, meanwhile, is in replacing my shell. I want a BASIC that can be a useful, productive stand-in for bash. In this sense, I'm actually more influenced by new-school shells like nushell, elvish and PowerShell.

4. nom

   3 92 9,993 8.1 Rust

   Rust parser combinator framework

   

   Part of that inspiration was learning about parser combinators, particularly Rust's nom library. Of course, parser combinators - particularly in Rust - presented a bit of a learning curve. But this incredible post by Bodil Stokke really helped me understand how they worked, and made me feel empowered. In fact, for small DSLs, I often use parser combinators - for instance, with ts-parsec in TypeScript and parsy in Python. If you want to dip your toes in and have a head for functional programming DSLs, this is a great direction to go in.

5. elvish

   4 49 6,056 8.2 Go

   Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

   

   But these fantasy consoles are aimed largely at the classic BASIC use case of writing simple games. My interest, meanwhile, is in replacing my shell. I want a BASIC that can be a useful, productive stand-in for bash. In this sense, I'm actually more influenced by new-school shells like nushell, elvish and PowerShell.

6. crafting-interpreters

   5 1 0 6.6 C

   The residue of me working through Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

   

   But one thing that really helped me get to the point where I felt comfortable writing a "real" language is the book Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom. A lot of the classic resources are old textbooks, such as the dragon book - too dense and academic for my tiny goldfish brain. But Crafting Interpreters is very hands-on and practical, with modern techniques used in real compilers. For instance, it teaches how to write a recursive descent parser, as well as a bytecode VM. I worked through the entire book, porting jlox to TypeScript and writing my first non-trivial C program in the form of clox. It's really an incredible book, and I can't recommend it enough.

7. fantasy

   6 13 1,491 5.1

   A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.

   

   You can see some hints of these in fantasy consoles, such as BASIC8. BASIC8 in particular supports many modern features, such as classes and coroutines, and has fine-grained file support.

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